Regular Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich get tax cuts. They struggle while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets. Their voices are drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is broken? This is why we must fix the system.

It's tempting to use Claude 4.6 Opus for everything because it's so capable, but that's not cost efficient. The goal of AI-assisted programming is to get the greatest value for the lowest cost. That's why I think that budgeting is quickly becoming a necessary skill for software engineers.

AI is quickly moving from reading/analyzing/writing to agents doing the work that many humans are currently paid to do. I hope the left quickly makes peace with productivity-driven deflation

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law." This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul. This is hardly the profile of someone looking to chart her own path. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

"Our analysis finds the overall share of middle-class households that do not make enough to afford basic necessities where they live ranges from 23% to 57%." That's JUST the middle 60% of incomes, to say nothing of the bottom 20%. www.brookings.edu/articles/in-...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

Deflationstans Unite!!

I think this is the island where the US burned houses, cut off milk and salt supply, and killed locals’ dogs to “encourage” then to vacate. Apparently thinking that was bad is wokism

OpenAI round set to close with $100bn raise at $850bn valuation. Not even sure what to say about this honestly.

Over 6 million views and still growing, as the plot keeps thickening on this story…

Here’s the data from 2020-2025. It’s the same story: the 1% doing laps around labor Agree that paycheck-to-paycheck is a squishy metric and should be retired. Let’s use another metric I learned tonight: 48% don’t have 3 months of savings. That, to me, is very clearly mass economic insecurity.

interesting that colbert finally saying the thing corporate TV has been dancing around for months. "cancel culture" was always about power, not sensitivity.

Great point. Nobody wants to find out. Hopefully it stays that way.

There’s a great saying among expats living in Beijing: come for a month and you’ll know enough to write 10 books. Stay for 10 years and you’ll learn how little you know about China

Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem ideal that we're going to have to create a network to smuggle drawings and letters our of our national network of punitive detention camps and keep them anonymous so that the authorities can't retaliate against children.

Because 65% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and 35% of US children live at 2x the poverty line. Real wage gains over the past several decades are marginal compared to the country’s productivity gains. Workers are tired of seeing those gains go to the 1% while they barely scrape by.

Liberalism in its purest form.

That moment when you realize you’ve been driving around town alone for 20 minutes listening to your toddler’s vapid permajoy music

No job growth, but we’re not in a recession. Seems like a fairly clear signal that labor is losing to capital.

If there ever were a moment for labor solidarity to reshape the American political landscape, it’s now

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Today’s Ring of Fire solar eclipse in its stunning peak phase seen over Antarctica...😲🌕🌞

This analogy is correct.

Dear god, it’s Clippy from the OG Jurassic Park welcome movie reincarnated in a kids toy without an off switch We’re so cooked.

Priorities.

Please don’t come to the US. Nothing good will happen. We are drunk and need space.

MLB really needs to introduce relegation. We can’t keep pretending this is a real pro-level org.

60 million voters are permanently lost

CBS not airing James Talarico’s interview with Stephen Colbert because they were supposedly worried about FCC backlash is a really big deal. Stephen Colbert was told not to say anything and did so anyways. This man is not getting enough credit for standing up for free speech.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

The crowd is LOVING James Talarico on Stephen Colbert

No notes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

BREAKING: BRAVO! Stephen Colbert defies his corporate bosses and reveals that CBS REFUSED to air his interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico due to bullying by Trump’s FCC! 1/?

BREAKING: ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded & squalid conditions on 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, the Trump admin admitted in court Monday. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

The irony here is that Russian Authoritarianism used to be the reason why Americans hated socialism. Now power supports the former but vilifies the latter. More than ironic, it’s just embarrassing.

There’s a pervasive myth in American economics pop culture that deflation is associated with depression. Some people use the words interchangeably. It comes from our terrible experience in 1929 and subsequent decision to banish deflation in all its manifestations. But it’s just not true.

WTF a two-month old detainee?!? This from the Christian party of family values? Fucking despicable.

Feel like this chart or something like it should be on everyone’s wall. From Economic Policy Institute www.epi.org/productivity...

GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔 Nothing to see here, folks! We are being looted so hard by these crooks

Welp

Massie not backing down.

On some level, it feels like I didn't get taught Marx properly in grade school because someone on some level felt that it would have been unpatriotic. Just a hunch. And kind of a bummer.

AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

It makes me sad when people assume that all deflation is destructive, and that voters don’t know what they want

@barackobama.bsky.social I’ve always wondered, because I hear it in your writing, but have never seen it specifically addressed… Are you as big of a Rortystan as I think you are?

Whoa that escalated quickly. AI bot attacks software developer over their decision to gate-keep a code change. Assuming this is real, this feels like a major rubicon has been crossed. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

This really nails it, except we have another option: pay less for everything. Our collective and unhistoric prejudice against deflation in all flavors is causing us to make bad economic decisions